Double execution scheduled for ex-officer and 2nd oldest inmate put to death in US history
STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A former police officer convicted of the on-duty rape and murder of a young girl was put to death Tuesday, the first of two lethal injections planned for a single day in Florida, hours before an 80-year-old man was to become the second-oldest inmate executed in modern U.S. history. It has been nearly a decade since any state carried out two executions in a one day, when Arkansas had back-to-back executions in 2017. Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has stepped up executions over the past 18 months at a pace unseen in the state since 1976 when the U.S. reinstated the death penalty, making Florida’s death chamber the nation’s busiest.
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I felt I owed it to them to make sure this ran very smoothly.” If his execution proceeds as planned, Occhicone would become the second-oldest prisoner known to be put to death in modern U.S. history after 83-year-old Walter Moody Jr. was executed in Alabama in 2018 for a wave of mail bombs in 1989 that killed a federal judge and wounded a Black civil rights attorney.
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STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A former police officer convicted of the on-duty rape and murder of a young girl was put to death Tuesday, the first of two lethal injections planned for a single day in Florida, hours before an 80-year-old man was to become the second-oldest inmate executed in modern U.S. history. It has been nearly a decade since any state carried out two executions in a one day, when Arkansas had back-to-back executions in 2017. Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has stepped up executions over the past 18 months at a pace unseen in the state since 1976 when the U.S. reinstated the death penalty, making Florida’s death chamber the nation’s busiest.
